IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1952MT111021
  • User Pedon ID: S1952MT111021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3535
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39200
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 45.9027061
  • Std. Longitude: -108.2849121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 28E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 SE1/4
  • Location Description: near northwest corner of 40 in virgin roadside about 1/4 mile north of Huntley Cemetery. (Photo ZW-9G-191)
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT111—Yellowstone
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT111—Yellowstone County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Bourne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Creed
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nunn
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1952
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1952 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ZW-9G-191
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A27283
    B2t—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A27284. continuous - phpvsfiid 187916; continuous - phpvsfiid 187916
    B3ca—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27285. segregated lime in splotches and flecks.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 187913; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 187913
    C1—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27286
    C2—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27287. Texture varies from sandy loam to sandy clay with a concentration of pebbles in lower part of horizon.
    C3ca—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27288. spots of segregated lime.